Paddle-wheel for vessels



(No Model.)

, T. 0. LOVE.

PADDLE WHEEL FOR VESSELS.

No. 317,657. Patented May 12, 1885.

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UNTTE. STATES PATENT OFFICE.

THOMAS 0. LOVE, OF EVANSVILLE, INDIANA.

PADDLE-WHEEL FOR VESSELS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 317,657, dated May 12, 1885;

Application filed September 1, 1884.

.To aZZ whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, THOMAS 0. Love, a citizen of the United States, residing at Evansville, in the county of Vanderburg and State of Indiana, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Tater-Wheels, of which the following is a specification, reference being had therein to the accompanying drawings.

This invention relates to improvements in water-wheels for the propulsion of steam-vessels, and has for its objects, first, to save power and prevent lifting a large body of water as the wheel leaves the surface thereof; second, to construct the wheel in such manner as to obtain great strength with a given weight of material. These objects are attained by the mechanism illustrated in the accompanying drawings, forming a part of this specification, in which Figure 1 is a side elevation. elevation.

The letter A indicates the shaft, which is intended to revolve in suitable bearings. B are hubs keyed thereto, having radial arms 0, provided with annular metal plates or rings D, which are bolted thereto by the bolts d. At the outer extremity of the arms 0 are secured the buckets E. Each bucket is made of a single piece of stout sheet metal,which extends clear across the face of the wheel, and has two angular or V-shaped parts, 6, and three flat portions, 6, as shown in Fig. 2. 'As this shape can be made so as to give a greater area to a bucket to a wheel of a given Width at the same time that it enters the water with less resistance, it leaves it without lifting, as the water runs down the inclined faces of the bucket as it approaches the surface while turning. The

Fig. 2 is a front flat portions 6 of the bucket are intended to fit snugly over the ends of the radial arms 0, and thereby enable the fastening of the bucket (No model.)

to the arms to be more securely made. Each end of the bucket is turned at a right angle to that portion of the bucket indicated by the letter e, so as to be on a plane with the side of the wheel and lie flat against the outer radial arms 0. These portions of the bucket are indicated by the letter E, and act as braces to prevent the arms of the wheel from spreading in an outward direction. Each bucket is secured to the outer radial arms 0 by means of L-shapcd stirrups F, and to the intermediate or central arms 0 by means of the U- shaped stirrups F. It will be observed that the stirrups F pass through both portions E E of the bucket, thus binding the two parts more firmly to each other, as well as rendering the fastening of the bucket to the outer arms 0 exceedingly firm.

Having described my invention, what I desire to secure by Letters Patent and claim is- In a water-w heel for the propulsion of steamvessels, the shaft A, provided with hubs B, and radial arms 0, having supporting-rings D, in combination with buckets E, each bucket having two \l-shaped portions, 6,. and three fiat parts, 6, the ends of said buckets E having parts E at a right angle to the said parts 6 and on a plane with the sides of the wheel, the parts E and E of the bucket being secured to the outer arms 0 by L-shaped stirrups F, and the part E to the central radial arms Gby a U-shaped stirrup, F, the whole of said bucket E being composed of a single piece of metal extending clear across the face of the wheel, as shown and described, and for the purposes set forth.

In testimony whereof I affix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

THOMAS 0. LOVE. Witnesses:

WM. It. WHARTON, WM. H. GUneEL. 

